Volume 12 Flashcards

(100 cards)

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braver

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to brave

face danger courageously

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un brave garçon

un garçon brave

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an honest boy

a courageous boy

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un grand homme

un homme grand

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a great man

a tall man

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un esprit curieux

un curieux cas

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an inquiring mind

a strange case

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5
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trapu

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stocky

tough

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6
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un tollé

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outcry

hue and cry

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7
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la dérobade

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evasion

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8
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à la place

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instead

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9
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un tesson

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shard

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10
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une passoire

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sieve

strainer

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11
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en dehors de

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outside of

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12
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entendre pas dessus

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to be heard over (noise)

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13
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pendant que

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while

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au milieu de

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in the middle of

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15
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fastidieux (adj)

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tedious
boring
trying
dull

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fastueux (adj)

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sumptuous

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17
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faire le délicat

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to be fussy

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18
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la péréquation

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adjustment (economic)

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19
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la controverse

être sujet à controverse

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controversy

to be controversial

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20
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dimensionner

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to size

degree of robustness

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21
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caricaturer

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to caricature
minimize
render simplistic

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22
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un alea

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vagary

random event

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23
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une défaite

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a failure

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24
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les déboires (mpl)

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disappointments

trials

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un gain
gain
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asservir à
to be enslaved | subjugated
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une razzia
raid | foray
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saccager
to wreck pillage ransack
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une mise en bouche
appetizer
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le débordement
overflowing | excesses
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les faits divers
short news items (local news, crimes...)
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le délitement
disintegration
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une ruche
hive
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porteur (adj)
supporting encouraging booming (economy)
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un porteur | une porteuse
``` carrier holder (eg. passport) ```
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un colibri
hummingbird
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un tatou
armadillo
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poétique (adj)
poetic
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un pousse-pousse
rickshaw
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à la perfection
perfectly
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salutaire (adj)
beneficial | wholesome
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se prendre la tête
to complicate things
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gamberger
to cook up
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en exclusivité
exclusively
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pompette (adj) (colloq)
tipsy
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un taudis
shack | unimpressive house
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grand public (adj expression)
accessible available to masses opposite: élitiste
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un malus
penalty (financial) opposite: bonus
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la fiscalité
taxation
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ostentatoire (adj)
ostentatious
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un vidéaste | une vidéaste
video director
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Un dévolu
choice | selection
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un colistier | une colistière
running mate | candidate
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faisable (adj)
feasible
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la faisabilité
feasibility
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provisoire (adj)
provisional temporary interim
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la rétroaction la rétroaction positive la retroaction negative
feedback positive feedback negative feedback
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paître
to graze rub lightly against
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le criquet
locust
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une commission
errand
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un/une internaute
net surfer
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un balais Elles a 80 balais. (familière)
broom balais = ans She’s 80 years old
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zapper (fam)
to forget oublier
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c’est ouf!
It’s crazy note: fou —> ouf in verlan
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tes vieux (fam)
your parents
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crasher (anglicisme for s’écraser)
to crash
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une verge
stick wand penis
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Ça compte pour du beurre. (expression)
That has no value. | Le beurre fonde et devient nul
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loin ou proche
far or near later or soon Works with time as well as distance
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avoir des comptes à rendre à qn
to be accountable to sb
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n’avoir de compte à rendre à personne
to be able to do what one wants to be accountable to no one to be independent self-employed
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se mettre à son compte
to become independent | become self-employed
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suite à
after
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faire un compte rendu de qc à qn
to make a detailed report of st to sb
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un goulot boire au goulot goulot d’étranglement
neck (of a bottle) to drink from a bottle bottleneck, impass
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l’enjeu (m)
bet wager issue (problème)
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la ponce
pumice
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lithique (adj)
pertaining to stone
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la panache
plume (inc volcanic)
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un boulier
abacus
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une altérité
otherness | beyond our imagination
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écru (adj)
unbleached | natural
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inusable (adj)
hard wearing
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une touffe
tuft
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un grillage
fencing with wire
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un osselet un jeu d’osselets
small bone jack game of jacks
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un métayer
tenant farmer
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au retour de la guerre
returning from the war
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l’exploitation
exploitation
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un cabanon
shed | small house
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un auxiliaire
adjunct
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amovible (adj)
detachable
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être du voyage
to be part of the trip
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pierreux (adj)
stony
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une charmille
bower | tree-lined path
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un ustensile
utensil
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la bricole
object of little value
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le coucher
bedtime
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crépir
to render | plaster
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une vieillerie
old item